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RFID Tags In The Race Timing Industry
You many not be aware of this, but RFID is not new to the foot race world. For years now, race times have been clocked from RFID tags attached to the runner's shoe or ankle strap. However, these tags, in addition to being cumbersome to collect, tend to underperform near lossy materials and have poor read ranges.
PowerID, the industry leader in battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID technology and its partner, RFID Race Timing Systems, have launched the PowerT tag. Hundreds of thousands of PowerT tags have already road-tested (no pun intended) at races around the world, revolutionizing the way RFID is used in the race timing industry. One of the pioneers in the use of UHF for race timing, RFID Race Timing Systems released its ULTRA System in 2009 and was the first to successfully place a UHF tag on the bib.
The PowerT tag is attached to the back of the runner's bib, which can be mailed to the runner prior to the event, negating any user error on the part of the athlete fitting the tag to a shoe or ankle strap and obviating the cumbersome collection of tags following the race. The PowerT tag has an environmentally friendly battery and pocket-book friendly price tag, making it inherently disposable. But what really takes this RFID tag to the next level is enhanced reliability. The new PowerT tag provides high read ranges, easily read from antennas set up in mats or on gantries up to 9 meters away.
We are very excited about the expanding use of PowerT in races across the world by RFID Race Timing Systems,” said Erez Kahani, CEO of PowerID. “Adoption of the PowerT tag has been rapid with hundreds of thousands being utilized in the past few months, and we look forward to its continued use in the race timing sector.”
PowerT tags attached to runners’ bibs with the ULTRA System have been used in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Most recently, the PowerT tag was used with excellent results at the Riga Marathon, the HBF Run for Reason in Perth, the Five Mile Run in Dublin, the Singapore Run for Water, and the Tobacco Run in North Carolina.
For more information about BAP RFID, see the PowerID website.
